Necktie



Nov. 7, 1939. M. MC'CURRACH 2,178,893

NECKTIE Filed June 14, 1.938

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ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 7, 1939 UNITED STATES NECKTIE Mabel C. McCurrach, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to McCurrach Organization, Incorporated, New York, N. Y., a corporationof New York Application June 14,1938, Serial 'No. 213,570 2 Claims. ,(Cl. 2-146) This invention relates to neckties and has particular reference to preformed devices relating to the knotting of neckties for producing a neat and attractive predetermined appearance of the neckties.

One object of the invention is to provide improved means desirably embodied in the necktie as a permanent part thereof for producing a predetermined indentation or pleat-like drape formation in the front of the necktie just below the knot, and without interfering with the normal tying and untying of the knot.

Heretofore various attempts have been made to produce a relatively fixed or otherwise predetermined pleat-like fold in the necktie, and resort has been had to devices which prevented untying of the necktie, and to shaping appliances of metal and to various re-enforcements, fold constructions and the like, but none of these have successfully solved the problem, for the reason that the purchaser must be able to tie his' own knot to suit, and without using separate appliances, and because the pliability and thinness of the necktie must be preserved as well as its adaptability to stretch and conform to the knot without undue distortion of material and without requiring more than ordinary care or skill in ring the knot.

it is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a necktie having improved features for realizing all of these advantages, and whichshall be inexpensive to manufacture and adapted for quantity production by the usual methods.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid obiects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a necktie embodying the invention. ,I

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a lining having my improved preformed means applied thereto.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing a modification of the invention. 3

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view ofa knotted necktie embodying. the invention.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Figs. 6 and 7 are sectional views showing different modifications of the invention.

The advantages of the invention as here out- 5 lined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities arecombined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the an 10 to which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing the Preferred exemplification of the invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, l0 denotes a necktie embodying the invention. The same may include any suitable strip of lining material I I cut on the bias, and having superposed thereon atthe knotting region a forming element I2 embodying the invention. The elements ll, i2 may be secured to the necktie, as along a seam thereof, by a line of slip stitching i3 which extends centrally of 'the said elements.

Referring to Fig. 2, it will be perceived that the 25 element l2 consists of a preformed pleated piece of any suitablesheet material which is pliable and capable of retaining a fold or pleat. Prefer-' ably it consists of a textile fabric which may be relatively heavy, like the lining I I, and which is preferably, though not necessarily, cut on the bias. It will be noted that the element 12 is formed with two longitudinally extending parallel pleats, each affording an apex or fold line I4 which projects toward the front or the necktie. 5 Intermediate of the pleats is another pleat or fold line H), which projects toward the rear of the necktie, that is toward the shirt side thereof.

Accordingly, theadjacent sides of the pleats provide -a longitudinal trough or recess I6 to aco commodate the front wall I] of the necktie as at l8. .Also the pleats afford rearward diverging walls l9 which provide lateral support for pleated structure and assist in shaping the necktie. It will be appreciated that if the walls l9 were re- 5 moved, the trough l6 would lose a good deal of its resilience and tend to flatten out completely.

It is accordingly seen that the, forming element l2 constitutesa pleat forming member which is of sumcient length so that the knot can be made at 5 different points along the necktie. If the forming element l2 consists of a textile fabric, the same may be stiffened by a suitable backing or by being coated or impregnated, so asto tend to indefinitely retain the pleats. For example, the fabric may be impregnated with a suitable animal glue or waterproof adhesive, to provide a forming member which shall not create crackling sounds, such as paper would, when the necktie is manipulated.

5 Desirably the forming element l2, although thus stiffened, may retain a substantial amount of its 5 stiffened, pleated section 23 which affords a conformation and arrangement like that shown in Fig. 2 and operates in. the same manner. Thus it includes the rearward extending fold line 24 and on opposite sides thereof, the outward exzotending fold lines 25. The section 23 may be stiffened in the same manner as the forming element l2, it being understood that the stiffening may only partially diminish the resilience of the lining.

26 It will be noted that a reenforcing or backing member may be advantageously associated with the linings of certain neckties. For instance, such a backing member 26 may centrally extend along the necktie l0, being secured thereto by the 30 slip stitching I3, and terminating at the forming element l2. With the lining 22, however, the backing member 2! may extend past the region of the section 23, while being similarly secured by stitching l3.

88 In Fig. 6 is shown a modified form of the invention including a lining 28 and a forming element 29 similar in all respects to the construction and arrangement of the device I0, except that the element 29 is marginally stitched to the lining as 40 at 30, whereas the center fold line 3| may or may Y not be thus secured, as desired.

In Fig. 7 is shown another modification of the invention wherein the forming element 32, conis nected to the lining 33, may provide increased 43 support for its pleat formation, as by having inwardly curled longitudinal portions 34, whose free edges permit a desired flexibility. This element 32 may be secured or tacked at one or more points to the lining member, as at 35, 36, but its construction may be otherwise the same as that'of the device l0.

It will now be perceived that I have provided a necktie having as a permanent concealed part 5 thereof a prefolded means capable of being resiliently flattened or otherwise twisted and shaped in course of knotting the tie, and having the capacity of yieldingly maintaining a pleat-like formation to thus produce an indentation or pleatlike form in the necktie immediately below the knot, with the'marginal portions of the necktie turned rearward so that the cross section thereof approximates the letter M. Accordingly the necktie is conventional in appearance and may be manipulated in the usual convenient manner to conform with all requirements of high class neckwear. Moreover, no crackling sound will result in course of tying the knot, because the forming element has a relatively soft body or one having 2 fibroussurfaces, or being free of any continuous stiff relatively nonelastic composition material.

Finally, it will be perceived that the necktie is inexpensive to make and can'be produced by quantity production methods.

-I claim: ,1. A four-in-hand necktie having between the front and rear walls at the knot-tying region of the necktie an elongated prefolded pleat-forming element of relatively firm fabric, said pleat-forming element having three longitudinal pleats which are free to expandand contract laterally, the center pleat extending toward the rear of the tie and the side pleats extending toward the front of the tie to provide said pleat-forming element 5 with a cross section of generally M-shape.

2. A fo'u'r-in-hand necktie having between the front and rear walls at the knot-tying.region of the necktie an elongated resilient prefolded pleatforming element of relatively firm fabric, said 40 pleat-forming element having three longitudinal pleats which are free to expand and contract lat-. erally, the center pleat extending toward the rear of the tie and the side pleats extending toward the front of the tie to provide said pleat-forming 5 element with a cross section of generally M-shape.

MABEL C. MCCURRACH. 

